dental plate
Americannoun
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But when Chambers explained that he had been fitted out with a new dental plate, Hiss tentatively confirmed his earlier identification of him as Crosley.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the rest, O'Horgan simply grubs around in his museum of Halloweens Past and bemuses the audience with such papier-m�ch� wonders as a huge walking dental plate.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Nottingham, England, Scottish Flyweight Champion Vic Herman found himself an ounce too heavy before he defended his title, reduced immediately by taking out his dental plate and its single tooth.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Grover Cleveland had cancer of the mouth, caused probably by the irritation of an ill-fitting dental plate rather than by heavy smoking.
From Time Magazine Archive
In trying to stop him, the officer had broken his dental plate, the inmate complained; and all he’d been trying to swallow anyway, he said, was a written note.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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